Content
- Lectures: 30 hours
- Seminar: 30 hours
- Independent work: 120 hours
Subject carrier
Description
1. INTRODUCTION
a. What is research?
b. Types of research
c. Ethical questions in research
d. Levels of evidence
e. Errors in discoveries and argumentation
2. BASIC CONCEPTS OF MEASUREMENT
a. Measurement scales
b. Internal/external validity
c. Repeatability
d. Measurement errors
e. Threats to internal/external validity
3. TYPES OF RESEARCH AND TEHIR DESIGN
a. Research as process
b. Quantitative and qualitative approaches to research
c. Research strategies
d. Research design
e. Research methods
f. Sampling and the representativeness of the sample
g. Literature review (collection and evaluation of references, professional and scientific writing, organization of science, scientific publishing) and fundamentals of meta analysis
h. Particularities of research in dietetics
i. Research methods in dietetics and related fields
j. measurements and data collection in dietetics
4. STATISTICAL METHODS
a. Repetition of basic statistical concepts and data analyses
b. Statistical power analysis
c. Regression analysis
d. Factors analysis
e. Internal consistency analysis
f. Other statistical methods used in dietetics
5. WRITING AND DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH RESULTS
